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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.08.2024
    „Interferenzen in gegenwartsliterarischen Verfahren der Zeitdarstellung. Postmigration, Posthumanismus und Weird Fiction im Dialog“ (Germanistentag 2025)
    Submitted by: Philipp Ohnesorge

    Philipp Ohnesorge, Eckhard Schumacher, Hannah Willcox (Universität Greifswald) CfP: „Interferenzen in gegenwartsliterarischen Verfahren der Zeitdarstellung. Postmigration, Posthumanismus und Weird Fiction im Dialog“ Panel auf dem 28....

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 7 more
    Created on: 04.07.2024
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 08.09.2024
    Panel Deutscher Germanistentag 2025: Dialog als Form in der interkulturellen Erzählliteratur in der postmigrantischen Gesellschaft, Braunschweig
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Dialog als Form in der interkulturellen Erzählliteratur in der postmigrantischen Gesellschaft „Die Idee, Geschichte aus der Perspektive und Erfahrung von Migration zu erzählen und dabei marginalisierte Wissensarten sichtbar zu machen, ist für...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Narratology,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 24.06.2024
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 12.07.2024
    Das war‘s. Praktiken und Ästhetiken des Aufhörens
    Submitted by: Miriam Wienhold

    Der Workshop steht im Kontext der gesellschaftlichen sowie ästhetischen Problematiken des Schließens, des Aufhörens und des Beendens, die Teil der mannigfaltigen Krisen der letzten Jahre waren. Man denke an das ‚Ende‘ der Pandemie, des Kapitalismus...

    Fields of research Media studies,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy and 1 more
    Created on: 08.05.2024
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.05.2024
    Call for book chapters for the edited volume: Interdisciplinary Studies on German Philology - Cyberpunk and digital rebellion of AI
    Submitted by: Irem Atasoy

    Call for book chapters for the edited volume: Interdisciplinary Studies on German Philology Cyberpunk and digital rebellion of AI As a literary genre and a form of cultural aesthetic cyberpunk narratives depict dark visions of...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Digital Humanities,  Media studies and 2 more
    Created on: 29.03.2024
  5. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 23.04.2024
    Call for Abstracts: Studientag: „‚Tipping Points‘. Balanceakte in der Literatur und Kultur“, Bergische Universität Wuppertal (28. Juni 2024)
    Submitted by: Ben Sulzbacher

    Frist für Einreichungen: 23. April 2024 In Zeiten großer Unsicherheit ob der (In-)Stabilität von Strukturen aller Arten sehen sich die Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften mehr denn je mit Fragen nach Verantwortung, Abhängigkeiten und...

    Fields of research Digital Humanities,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 11 more
    Created on: 14.03.2024
  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.03.2024
    The Question of Representation in Contemporary Indian Literature
    Submitted by: Srishti Chaudhary

    In Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath refers to the Aesopian fable of the painting of the lion. The lion complains about the painting, which demonstrates a man defeating a lion, and asserts that the painting would look very...

    Fields of research South Asian literature,  Feminist studies,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 9 more
    Created on: 23.02.2024
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 23.02.2024
    GSA Seminar 2024 "Politisch schreiben in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur: Methodische und theoretische Annäherungen"
    Submitted by: Jeannette Oholi

    Abstract : Die deutschsprachige Literaturlandschaft ebenso wie die dazugehörigen Diskurse wandeln sich: Gegenwartsromane wie Salzmanns Außer sich, Otoos Adas Raum und Aydemirs Dschinns spielen eine wichtige Rolle in gesellschaftlichen...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Narratology and 4 more
    Created on: 07.02.2024
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.03.2024
    KörperLandschaften in Stummfilm / Body Landscapes in Silent Cinema
    Submitted by: Daniel Winkler

    Body Landscapes in Silent Cinema International Conference at the University of Heidelberg November 7 through November 9, 2024 In the historical interplay between nature and culture, the modern age occupies a special position...

    Fields of research Media studies,  Literature and media studies,  Intermediality and 1 more
    Created on: 12.01.2024
  9. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.01.2024
    Call for Book Chapters for an edited volume: Interdisciplinary Studies on German Philology - Utopia and Dystopia in German Literature, Film, and Television
    Submitted by: Irem Atasoy

    Call for Book Chapters for an edited volume: Interdisciplinary Studies on German Philology - Utopia and Dystopia in German Literature, Film, and Television In modernist thinking, utopias are considered as representations of imaginary...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Ecocriticism and 6 more
    Created on: 21.10.2023
  10. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.12.2023
    ‘Novel Media/Media Novel: Theorising Digital Media Cultures in the Contemporary Novel’ -- Special Issue of C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings
    Submitted by: Sandro Eich

    Contemporary novels are marbled with representations of digital media. Despite the notable attention to digital technologies already present in post-war literature, the twenty-first century has witnessed the unprecedented integration of digital media...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Australian/Oceanian literature and 7 more
    Created on: 11.10.2023
  11. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.01.2024
    Die Gegenwärtigkeit der Courasche. Grimmelshausens Roman im Kontext aktueller Theoriedebatten
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die Gegenwärtigkeit der Courasche. Grimmelshausens Roman im Kontext aktueller Theoriedebatten Hgg: Daniela Fuhrmann (Universität Zürich) & Ervin Malakaj (University of British Columbia) Grimmelshausens Courasche (1670) diente als...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Feminist studies and 3 more
    Created on: 18.09.2023
  12. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 29.09.2023
    She Said, He Said, They Said: (Un)Reliable Narrators in Literature (NeMLA 2024, Boston)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    From monologues offering invectives about various characters in Shakespearean plays and poetry; suspicious narrations involving characters in Hawthorne’s short stories and novels; distrustful narrators in Marge Percy’s sci-fi stories, novels and...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Narratology,  Literature of the 19th century and 2 more
    Created on: 28.07.2023
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 23.06.2023
    4. Studientag der Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft: „Über Menschen… und darüber hinaus“ (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, 14.07.2023)
    Submitted by: Ben Sulzbacher

    Die studies haben in den letzten Jahren Hochkonjunktur: von den animal über die plant bis hin zu den critical future studies – verhandelt wird die Stellung des Menschen in einem Geflecht wechselseitiger Abhängigkeiten. Was ist...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Digital Humanities,  Literary theory and 13 more
    Created on: 05.06.2023
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.08.2023
    BAUSTELLE Brecht V: „Darum bleibt alle stehen, wo ihr steht, und singt den Choral der Ärmsten der Armen“ – Praktiken der Platznahme bei Brecht, Benjamin und Co.
    Submitted by: Micha Braun

    Das Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus lädt in Zusammenarbeit mit der International Brecht Society (IBS) Wissenschaftler:innen (besonders Graduierte, Doktorand:innen und andere Early Career Researcher) aller Disziplinen dazu ein, ihre Arbeiten zu Bertolt...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Feminist studies,  Postcolonial studies and 4 more
    Created on: 26.05.2023
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.07.2023
    Material Girls & Boys: Narrated Fashion in Children’s Media
    Submitted by: Iris Schäfer

    (March 7th - 9th, 2024 Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main, Germany) Clothing is a daily feature of every child’s life and this significance carries through into the media created for children and young people. From picture books for toddlers...

    Fields of research Empirical Aesthetics,  Reader-response criticism,  Feminist studies and 13 more
    Created on: 02.05.2023